Archives for 2008

There’s no shortage of competition for the top tech news story of 2008, that much is for sure. There’s the obvious (the explosive growth of ...


Apple's announcement this week that it will cease participation at Macworld next year and Steve Jobs' decision not to speak at the Jan. 2009 ...


Once revered as a must-attend event, tech industry shows are on the decline. The latest evidence is Apple Inc.'s decision to cease attendance at Macworld ...


By now, Torontonian Twitterers, if not the world, knows what a geekfest of a good time the HoHoTO bash was last night (Monday). For ...


Are you a social media enthusiast who's about to start a new job? First off, congratulations especially to my friends in the ...


Now that a Facebook takeover of Twitter for a reported US$500-million is apparently off the table, the microblogging service can resume its pursuit of ...


RIM announced its first "flip" open device this morning, a widely-expected product the company will use to outflank Apple and other emerging smartphone competitors. ...


It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super Google! You'd think the search engine king had just found the cure for cancer today with ...


Life is all about expectations. Overpromise and underdeliver at home, with your friends or in the workplace and expect to get your knuckles rapped ...


It's official: Facebook is a popular communications platform. Forget about Microsoft's $240-million investment in the social networking site announced in October of last ...


Dell, the world's largest computer maker, is going to take questions from media and analysts today via Twitter exclusively during a press conference to ...


A quick tally of my Google Talk contacts earlier today reveals that I now have almost as many contacts using the fledgling instant messaging ...


Google has brushed off many a challenger (where art thou Lycos?). as it rose to become King of The Web. Others have taken themselves ...


Think you've got the social network scene covered off now that you've signed up for Twitter and Facebook? Think again. Waves of social networks, designed to ...


Rogers, and for that matter all cell phone service providers, are on every consumer's 'most hated' company list. Yet people can't seem to put their ...


Anyone else see Jim Shaw's appearance on Business News Network last week to discuss third-quarter results? It was odd for a number of reasons. The ...


The rising price of crude oil has officially caught up with Canadians. The evidence? The anti-iPhone petition, launched last week in earnest after Rogers announced ...


It's been awhile, nonetheless I thought I'd revive, er, resume my wireless week in review posts. With that awkward introduction, here are the news ...


To say Canadians are disappointed with the service plans announced by Rogers yesterday is an understatement. Mad, angry, even vindictive are more appropriate adjectives that ...


Rogers announced a series of iPhone pricing plans with usage limits this morning, quashing speculation the carrier would offer all-you-can-eat deals for users of ...


The iPhone pricing cat is out of the bag. Canadian Mac blog ehMac.ca has apparently got its hands on an e-mail detailing the ...


So how low will Rogers go? That's the question yet to be answered by the wireless service provider, which earlier today all but said it ...


The Zune, with little fanfare, was made available to Canadians for the first time on Friday. The real question is 'does anyone care?' Initially, the ...


So the much-discussed iPhone will soon run all sorts of business software on faster so-called 3G networks as of next month. Great news for the ...


With Rogers set to bring the iPhone to Canada next month, the question for Canuck gadget lovers becomes this: how much will I have ...